A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in recording hours of work, processing time records, compiling payroll statistics, maintaining payroll control records, and calculating payrolls. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews, or directs review of, personnel records to determine names, rates of pay, and occupations of newly hired workers, and changes in wage rates and occupations of employees on payroll.
• Records, or directs recording of, new or changed pay rates in payroll register or computer files.
• Directs computation of pay according to company policy.
• Directs compilation and preparation of other payroll data, such as pension, insurance, and credit union payments.
• Reviews and approves payroll deductions.
• Interprets company policies and government regulations affecting payroll procedures.
• Directs preparation of government reports.
• Reviews payroll to ensure accuracy.
• May direct activities of workers engaged in computing costs of production, such as labor and equipment.
• Performs duties described under supervisor master title.